Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

We're not supposed to be huddled up in small groups singing kumbaya,

waiting on Jesus to come back and rapture us off this trailer park of a planet and then destroy it.

We're supposed to be in Babylon, living in Babylon, seeking the well-being of our city,

praying for it. For as it thrives, we thrive.

Welcome back to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

We've just begun a teaching series through the book of Daniel here on the program, and today Pastor Jady walks us through Nebuchadnezzar's confusing dream

in Daniel chapter 2. Through this wild and startling story, we'll learn to view our culture the way

Daniel viewed his, not through assimilation, not through separation, but through

transformation. This sounds like a perfect message for today, so let's get started right now

with a message Pastor J.D. titled, Validated. Daniel chapter two, if you got your Bible with you,

and I hope that you brought your Bible, if you will take it out, open it up, turn it on. Daniel chapter two, I have up here with me right now,

two pair of rayban sunglasses. One of them is a fake pair, and one of them is a real pair.

I don't really know if you can tell a whole lot of difference between them. If I put them on,

I would imagine that from your perspective, you're like, you look dumb in sunglasses. I don't really know if you can tell a whole lot of difference between them. If I put them on, I would imagine that from your perspective, you're like, you look dumb in sunglasses. I get it. I mean that, but they both look, you know, equally dumb on me. I don't think there is any one particular one that you could say. So they look very much alike. This is the fake pair. I ordered them from a clearance website, which should have been indication

number one. They were probably fake. But the site looked legit, totally legit, and I fall for stuff like this, so I ordered. They took like three months to get to my house. And when they arrived, they were in a box that looked like it had been drugged through rural China by a mule

and then drop kick across the ocean, which should have been my second clue that not everything

was right. But when I opened the box, they actually look good. In fact, honestly, in some ways,

I like the color and the design better than this genuine pair. But the moment that I put them on, the moment that I put

them on, y'all, I just didn't, it didn't, they didn't feel right. The metal feels really brittle.

The view is not as clear as you expect from a quality pair of sunglasses. I am sure that an expert

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